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Thursday, March 15, 2012

Sugar Cookies

This painting has been accepted into the 101st Exhibitionof the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts

May 25 - July 14, 2012

Mystic Arts Center

9 Water Street

Mystic, CT 06355

860-536-7601

The sugar cookies are drowning in granulated sugar and sugar
cubes. The belly of the sugar jar reflects the sugar in the foreground and the
lid has turned into a sugar cookie with a cube for a handle. It is soft,
beautiful and dangerous where there are no limits to the landscape and our need
for sugar.

In this painting on Processed Foods I ask several questions.
Is the soft, lovely, swirling forms of white sugar meant to describe the nature
of the sweet substance or is it a dangerous rising level trying to drown out
the box and the packet of Kool Aide? How much sugar is too much and do we
consume more than we should?

I am starting a new series about Processed Foods. This
painting is about the sugar we consume. The glass full of Cherry Kool Aide is
sitting in a sugar jar where there isn’t any room for the lid and sugar spoon.
The environment consists of mounds and hill of sugar. The color appeals to kids,
as does the twisting neon green straw, making it fun to drink.